Testo Junkie

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Testo Junkie
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Testo Junkie (published in English with the subtitle Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in The Pharmacopornographic Era) is a book, described as "auto-theory",

pharmaceuticals and pornography.[3] The book was the choice of McKenzie Wark in a list of the 11 best scholarly books of the 2010s by The Chronicle of Higher Education.[4]

Outline and concept

Preciado declares that Testo Junkie is a "

AIDS and died of an accidental overdose of a medication he was taking. In the book Preciado also processes the changes in his body due to testosterone through the lens of a romantic affair with his then lover, French writer Virginie Despentes, referred to as "VD."[6]

Sex and sexuality is a major theme in the book, as it is framed to pick up where Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, and the writings of Judith Butler leave off. Testo Junkie is a political history of reproductive technologies including oral contraceptive pills, Viagra, drugs used in doping, fluoxetine, and the history of clinical testosterone and estrogen usage, that connect to Preciado's own use of pharmaceuticals, among other things.[7] It discusses potentia gaudendi, the idea that the body has an inherent potential for pleasure.[8]

Pharmacopornographic capitalism

Preciado coins the term pharmacopornographic era in the book, a term based on his idea that the pharmaceutical industry, pornography industry, and late capitalism are integrated in their responsibility to the cycles of reproductive and social control through the regulation of bodies: it is framed into the micro-biological scale of design, and its place within a global political, social and economic context and strategies.[9]

References

  1. ^ Hansen, Sarah (2016). "Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era by Paul B. Preciado". State University of New York Press. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  2. ^ Delatte, Marta (August 5, 2014). "Meet the 'Testo Junkie' Who Hacks Her Gender with Testosterone". Vice Magazine. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Bianco, Marcie (September 25, 2013). "'Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era' by Beatriz Preciado". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  4. ^ "The Best Scholarly Books of the Decade". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2020-04-14. Archived from the original on 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  5. ^ Tucker, Ricky (December 4, 2013). "At Work: Pharmacopornography: An Interview with Beatriz Preciado". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  6. ^ Fateman, Johanna. "Bodies of Work: Two books of autofiction examine the sexual politics of the postporn era". Bookfroum. Bookforum. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  7. ^ Wark, McKenzie (December 7, 2013). "Testo Junkie, by Béatriz Préciado". No. 1. Public Seminar. Archived from the original on June 25, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
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  9. ^ "# PHILOSOPHY /// Modes of Subversions against the Pharmacopornographic Society: Testo Junkie by Beatriz Preciado - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE". THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE. 2013-05-14. Archived from the original on 2018-07-22. Retrieved 2018-07-22.

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